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INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat (4)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/02 11:46
Subsystems: tomoyo fs
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First crash: 147d, last: 132d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat net ext4 1 4 1126d 1328d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/07/13 16:11
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat (3) tomoyo mm 1 31 317d 342d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/09 16:45
upstream INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat (2) tomoyo 1 1 992d 992d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/25 04:08
linux-5.15 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat 1 1 697d 697d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/24 13:32
linux-6.1 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat 1 syz 1 18d 18d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/04/27 03:08
linux-6.6 INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat 1 2 126d 209d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/18 09:38

Sample crash report:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: 	Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-1): P8878/1:b..l
rcu: 	(detected by 0, t=10502 jiffies, g=49633, q=492 ncpus=2)
task:syz-executor    state:R  running task     stack:21592 pid:8878  tgid:8878  ppid:8870   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x149b/0x4fd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 preempt_schedule_irq+0x4d/0xa0 kernel/sched/core.c:7190
 irqentry_exit+0x5d8/0x660 kernel/entry/common.c:216
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:895 [inline]
RIP: 0010:class_rcu_destructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
RIP: 0010:unwind_next_frame+0x1a64/0x23d0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:695
Code: 00 00 c6 03 01 4c 8b 7c 24 50 4c 8b 64 24 20 41 0f b6 04 2c 84 c0 0f 85 35 02 00 00 41 c7 06 00 00 00 00 31 db e8 4c 7f e5 09 <85> c0 74 3a e8 53 e5 32 00 84 c0 75 31 e8 3a 7f e5 09 85 c0 74 28
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000ba47518 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffffff9046cf01 RCX: ffff88801c3abd00
RDX: ffffc9000ba47601 RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: ffffc9000ba475f0
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffc9000ba47d80 R09: ffffc9000ba47638
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52001748ec9 R12: ffffc9000ba47d90
R13: ffffc9000ba40000 R14: ffffc9000ba475e8 R15: ffffffff8173fd65
 arch_stack_walk+0x11c/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x9c/0xe0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5657 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x41d/0x800 mm/slub.c:5669
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe3/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x213/0x4b0 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
 tomoyo_path_rmdir+0xa2/0xe0 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:195
 security_path_rmdir+0x167/0x360 security/security.c:1441
 do_rmdir+0x1fb/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:5288
 __do_sys_unlinkat fs/namei.c:5468 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlinkat fs/namei.c:5462 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc2/0xf0 fs/namei.c:5462
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f4c9ed8ed27
RSP: 002b:00007ffe831b9058 EFLAGS: 00000207 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000065 RCX: 00007f4c9ed8ed27
RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 00007ffe831ba1a0 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 00007f4c9ee13d7d R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000207 R12: 00007ffe831ba1a0
R13: 00007f4c9ee13d7d R14: 0000000000083342 R15: 00007ffe831ba1e0
 </TASK>
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10545 jiffies! g49633 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=1
rcu: 	Unless rcu_preempt kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.
rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:
task:rcu_preempt     state:R  running task     stack:27776 pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline]
 __schedule+0x149b/0x4fd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6863
 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6945 [inline]
 schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6960
 schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x270 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:99
 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x301/0x1540 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2083
 rcu_gp_kthread+0x99/0x390 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
NMI backtrace for cpu 1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:82
Code: 3e b4 b6 f5 cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 73 c1 0e 00 f3 0f 1e fa fb f4 <e9> 13 b4 b6 f5 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197e20 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: 000000000061f293 RBX: ffffffff819713ee RCX: 0000000080000001
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8d79207b RDI: ffffffff8bc083e0
RBP: ffffc90000197f10 R08: ffff8880b87336db R09: 1ffff110170e66db
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10170e66dc R12: ffffffff8f822270
R13: 1ffff1100385eb70 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125f1f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000026000 CR3: 0000000059f33000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:107 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:767
 default_idle_call+0x73/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:191 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1be/0x4d0 kernel/sched/idle.c:332
 cpu_startup_entry+0x44/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:430
 start_secondary+0x101/0x110 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x147
 </TASK>

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/02 11:44 upstream b69053dd3ffb d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat
2025/12/18 11:54 upstream ea1013c15392 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root INFO: rcu detected stall in sys_unlinkat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.